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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2283 Nikolaj Malchow-Møller
Jakob R. Munch
Sanne Schroll
Jan Rose Skaksen
Attitudes Towards Immigration: Does Economic Self-Interest Matter?
In this paper, we re-examine the role of economic self-interest in shaping people’s attitudes towards immigration, using data from the European Social Survey 2002/2003. Compared to the existing ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (2), 254-257)
F1, F22, J61
2282 Sami H. Miaari
Robert M. Sauer
The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings
In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings. We quantify the conflict by the frequency of temporary closures of the West ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 129-148)
J21, J31, J40, J61, F22, C23
2281 Magnus Carlsson
Dan-Olof Rooth
Evidence of Ethnic Discrimination in the Swedish Labor Market Using Experimental Data
We present experimental evidence for recruitment discrimination against men with an Arabic sounding name. Our results show that every fourth employer discriminates against the minority. However, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (4), 716-729)
J64, J71
2280 Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Unemployment Insurance in Europe: Unemployment Duration and Subsequent Employment Stability
The empirical literature on unemployment insurance has focused on its direct effect on unemployment duration, while the potential indirect effect on employment stability through a more efficient ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(6), 1225-1260)
J64, J65, C41
2279 Maria L. Loureiro
Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
Daniela Vuri
Smoking Habits: Like Father, Like Son, Like Mother, Like Daughter
We analyze data from the 1994-2002 waves of the British Household Panel Survey to explore the influence of parental smoking habits on their children’s smoking decisions. In order to account for the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (6), 717-743 )
I1, C5
2278 Jennifer Hunt
How Corruption Hits People When They Are Down
Using cross-country and Peruvian data, I show that victims of misfortune, particularly crime victims, are much more likely than non-victims to bribe public officials. Misfortune increases victims’ ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2007, 84 (2), 574-589)
H1, K4, O1
2277 Volker Grossmann
Panu Poutvaara
Pareto-Improving Bequest Taxation
Altruistic parents may transfer resources to their offspring by providing education, and by leaving bequests. We show that in the presence of wage taxation, a small bequest tax may improve efficiency ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2009, 16 (5), 647-669)
H21, H31, D64, I21
2276 Filipe Almeida-Santos
Karen A. Mumford
Employee Training, Wage Dispersion and Equality in Britain
We use British household panel data to explore the wage returns to training incidence and intensity (duration) for 6924 employees. We find these returns differ greatly depending on the nature of the ...
(substantially rewritten - see 'Employee Training and Wage Dispersion: White and Blue Collar Workers in Britain', IZA DP No. 4821)
J24, J31, J41
2274 Mark Ellis
Jamie Goodwin-White
1.5 Generation Internal Migration in the US: Dispersion from States of Immigration?
The issue of immigrant spatial concentration and the possibilities for immigrant dispersion through migration features in at least three interrelated debates about immigration. First, the ethnic ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2006, 40 (4), 899-926)
J61
2273 Eskil Wadensjö
Part-Time Pensions and Part-Time Work in Sweden
Sweden had a special partial pension scheme between 1976 and 2001. It was one of three part-time pension schemes in the social security system. The other two were a partial early old-age pension, and ...
(published in: European Papers on the New Welfare, 2006, 6, 29-45)
H55, J22, J26, J14
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